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Gromyko Calls Meeting
9 Os Big Three Ministers
MOSCOW, March 1—(IP)
Deputy Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei Gromyko sum
moned the U. S., British and
French ambassadors to the
Kremlin at 2 P. M. (7 A. M.
EST) today.
Gromyko probably will hand
the Western envoys Russia’s re
-0 ply to the latest 'Western notes
on a proposed Big Four meeting.
The Western notes delivered
11 days ago had proposed that
representatives of the four pow
ers meet in Paris next Monday
to prepare an agenda for a con
ference of their foreign minis
ters.
Russia originaily proposed the
foreign minister’ meeting o n
grounds that rearmament of
• Western Germany threatened
world peace. The Western pow
ers denied the Soviet charge and
suggested that the Big Four meet
to discuss all East-West disputes.
Council To Pick
. Elections Board
Mayor Ralph E. Hanna announ- j
ced this morning that the city
council Monday night will appoint
a city board of elections to super
vise the special registration just
authorized by the legislature and
to handle the town’s municipal
election in April.
For several years, the city board
has also served as the elections
boSrd, but Mayor Hanna said to- I
day that he considered this an un-
A wlsi thing for a city council to
do. ’ ’
no Election disputes
"The chances are there would be
no controversy in a city election,
but it would not be altogether im
possible for a situation to arise.”
Formerly, the town had a board
of elections.
Mayor Hanna did not indicate
how many members he would
name to the board or who was
being considered.
m It is expected that the date will
be set late in April.
Mayor Hanna said today that he
would seek to have the new regis
tration of voters take place before
the scheduled vote on the city
manager issue, which has been set
for April 14th in a bill still pend
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•f steam left Wednesday night after trouncing the LaFayette girls’
M team, 85-55, to take the county cage title. These three had 88 of
% the team’s 88 points seared in the LUHngton School gymnasium.
Left te right, they are: Mena Brawn, 15 points; Lucille Graham,
M points; and Joyce Olive, «. pointa The three girls, all seniors,
played their final Barnett County game last night. r
(Daily Keoard Photo by T. M. Stewart)
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March Draft
Will Take 45
From Harnett
Harnett County will send 45 more
draftees to the Army March 30,
ID. J. Dowd, chairman of Local
Board No. 44, announced today.
The announcement from the
board’s headquarters in Lillington
added that 80 men will be called
up March 26 for preinduction phy
sical and mental examinations.
Both groups will go to Fayett
ville for processing at the induc
tion center there.
For regisrants seeking deferments
on plausible grounds, Dowd had a
few words of advice. He also warn
ed that registrants who show up
for examinations or induction
while under the influence of al
cohol will be arrested by civil
authorities.
OUTLINES RULES
"Selective service registrants of
this county should observe a few
simple rules in presenting their
cases to the draft board,” Dowd
said.
Registrants and interested per-
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House Okays
Special Vote
Sen. J. Robert Young’s bill ask
tag a vote on the city manager
aytom o t government in Dunn has
now become law.
The bill, initiated at the request
of the City Council, was pawed
yesterday by the House of Rep
resentatives. It had been approved
earlier by the Senate.
Provisions of the bill eall for a
vote on the question on a Satur
day on or before April 14.
If the present government form
is voted out, Dunn would go back
to the mayor-commissioner form
which existed prior to 1949.
The bill stemmed from a petition
signed by a number of local citi
zens who wanted a special election
to decide whether or net the city
manager government would be
kept. The petition was brought be
fore the council at its first Feb
ruary meeting.
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GET RECORD TROPHlES—Captains of the county championship
basketball teams were presented trophies by The Daily Record at the
end of the Utle play-offs Wednesday night at Lillington School Gym
nasium. Capt. Ronald Baker (left) accepted the trophy for the
winning team, while Capt. Lucille Bakerdid the honors for the Ben
haven sextet. Trophies were( given by C. Reid Ross, superintendent
of Harnett Count; schools. , I.Wj - - ■
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BULLETINS
PARIS, March I—(lP)—George Bidault, former prem
ier and leader of the Popular Republican Party (MRP),
agreed today to try to form a new coalition government
to replace that of Rene Pleven.
LONDON, March I—(lP)—Winston Churchill, 76-year
old leader of the British Conservative Party, is suffering
from a localized straphylococcal infection and has been
ordered to rest for a few days, his doctors said today.
WASHINGTON, March I—<lP>—President Truman to
day reiterated his full confidence in Defense Mobilizer
Charlies E. Wilson. And he told a news conference that he
did not regard as very serious organized labor’s sharp
break with the administration of the defense mobilization
program.
MILAN, Italy, March I—(lP)—Charles “Lucky” Luc
iano, deported former New York vice king, demanded to
day to be “imported” back to the U. S. so he can defend
himself against claims he is “umpiring” American gang
land disputes.
Union Gives Kids Shows , Sports , Fun
I Give the youngsters wbolesome
entertainment and something to do
in their spare time and they’ll
I grow lb to good citizens.
That is the theme which under
j lies the Ujiien Juniors Club in Er
win, rounded some time back by
I Local 250, Textile Workers Union
of America.
The dub has burgeoned forth in
the past three months, according
to Union Manager J. Thomas West,
and new brags of an enrollment ol
close to 150 boys and girls rang
ing ip age from 4 to 17.
Each Wednesday the children re
port to the union hall in Erwin at
4 p.m. to take on some form of
clean diversion. During the sum
mer they mky go swimming, get
up a baseball game, or just roam
around the countryside brushing
| elbows with Nature.
Or, in the winter, they may take
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AND IT’S FREE, TOO—Well aver a hundred youngsters crowded into the Peerless Theater in Erwin..
..yesterday to take part in the usual Wednesday afternoon entertainment offered by the Union Juniors..
..Club. .The club, established by Local 250, Textile Workers Union of America, provides recreation and..
. .entertainment for Erwin’s youngsters each Wednesday: afternoon. Straw boss of the group is Union..
. .Manager J. Thomas Wsst, shown at extreme left (Daily Reoord Photo by T. V Stewart)..
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Bbnhaven Takes
Victory In
Gvls Division
By Joe Caviness
£ Record Sports Editor
%Geli, the end has come.
The end of the basketball
season for the Harnett coun
ty high school girls and
boys. And with the end
comes two new champions,
thd Benhaven girls and the
LaFayette boys.
The LaFayette boys came
through with one of the two up
sets of the tournament, and at
a lather opportune time, to lick
a Very good Angler team by a
48 to 42 score. This was the
first and only defeat this year
for the Angier team, which has
pla) 'ed in six games in the past I
eight nights of county tourney
and Class A regional play.
Tne Benhaven girls, who steadily
improved throughout the season,
played probably the best game that
has ever been played by a girls’
team in Harnett County—or maybe
in any other county in the State.
MADE FEW ERRORS
Their mistakes could be count
ed on one’s fingers: shots missed,
bad passes, fumbles, mistakes in
judgment, being out of position,
acting too hastily or too slowly,
and, other errors all included
would number not more than 12
or 15 for the entire ball game.
This is an astounding display when
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Red Cross Chapter
ftps $8,500 Target
State News
Briefs
RALEIGH, March I—OIV-The
North Carolina Textile Founda
tion held its annual meeting here
today in the School of Textiles of
North Carolina State College.
Foundation President W. J.
“Nick” Carter of Greensboro pre-'
sided. Dean Malcolm E. Campbell
reported on the progress of the
Textile School
RALEIGH, March I—(lP)—The
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
informed the State Highway Com
mission , today that the cost of
maintaining adequately a mile of
non-deficient highway was twice
as high last year as in 1935.
Labor costs were the main factor
in‘ the increase, and were up 87
per cent since 1940, the report said.
Rail Unions Agree
To 12 l /i Cent Wage
Hike , C of L Clause
WASHINGTON, March I—(lP)—Negotiators for 15
non-operating rail unions and railroads reached agree
ment today on a wage increase of 12 V 2 cents an hour for
1,000,000 employes, a union spokesman said. The increase
is retroactive to Feb. 1.
The agreement was reached at
about 7 a. m. at a White House
session in Presidential Assistant
John R. Steelman’s office which
began at 8:30 p. m. yesterday.
As the spokesman made the an
nouncement, the negotiators were
preparing to initial the agreement,
he said.
MAY GET MORE
The spokesman said that the
agreement provides for a cost-of
living clause which may mean a
further five cent hourly increase
on April 1.
The contract is to run from
Feb. 1 this year until Oct. 1, 1953,
and provides for a wage reopen
ing clause next year when the
rail workers and carriers will see
what the national wage policy will
be then.
The non-operating rail workers
now average about $1.48 an hour
and the 12-Ms cent an hour in
crease would come within the pre
sent 10 per cent wage increase
ceiling.
The big stumbling block to con
tract agreement when the negoti
ators entered the almost round
the-clock session at the White
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Workers of the Dunn-Erwin
chapter of the American Red
Cross, after a final organization
meeting last night at the Dunn
Armory and an enthusiastic kick
off rally this morning at the Dunn
Theatre, started canvassing the
two communiUes to raise the 1951
quota of $8,439.
They went about their task with
the realization that the need of
the Red Cross this year is the
greatest in history—even greater
than during World War.ll.
SANDLIN SPEAKS
In an inspiring speech last night,
’ Roll Call Chairman Henry H.
Sandlin implored the workers to
go about the task as diligently as
they would their own business, to
take facts to the people, to impress
upon them that the Red Cross is
their organization.
“Whenever you give to the Red
Cross, you’re actually giving to
yourself and to your community,”
declared Sandlin.
Praising the work being done by
Mrs. Grace Swain, executive-sec
retary of the Dunn-Erwin chapter,
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Plant More
COTTON
For Your Country’s
Defense, For Your Own
Profit, Security.
Committee Kills
Referendum Bill
RALEIGH, March 1—(IP: An
other attempt to hold a Statewide
liquor referendum in North Caro
lina died today in secrecy in a
committee of the State House of
Representatives.
Members of the House Proposi
tions and Grievances Committee
voted in executive session to kill
the measure. The action was a
voice vote, and sources within the
committee said only a few scatter
ed “no’s’’ were sounded against it.
BURFOOT MAKES MOTION
Sources within the 20-minute
executive session said Rep. Noah
Burfoot of Pasquotank made the
motion to report the bill out un
favorably, and Rep. F. L. Gobble
of Forsyth seconded it. Reps.
James H Pittman of Richmond
and J. T. Pritchett of Lenoir both
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QapiioT
Sqwahsc
By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
BAILIWICK—Rep. Arthur Kirk
;man of Guilford is proud of his
county and his constituency, and
doesn't a bit mind being called the
“Gentlemen from Guilford.” He
says, however, he thinks it would
be a fine thing If members and
presiding officers would recognize
the Statewide scope of their re
presentation and obligation, and to
that end he hopes sometime to be'
called the "Gentleman from North
Carolina.”
HONORED — Seyeral men were
talking about ratification of the
22nd amendment to the federal
constitution limiting a president
to two elective terms, and a total
of 10 years in office as the nation’s
chief executive. One of the fell
ows quoted with approval argu
ments used against the amendment,
saying it was obviously a slap at
the late President Franklin Roose
velt. That’s a lot of bosh, said
another. It can just as readily be
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Record Contest May Be
Photo Finish For Prizes
By BILL A DORIS GUPTON
Contest Editor’s
Remember the classic race bet
ween the hare and the tortoise?
How Mr. Hare gained the lead
and then became over-confident
and paused for a “nap,” certain
that he had the race won and
could coast for the rest of the dis
tance?
What happened is well known.
Mr. Tortoise was the steady, hard
working sort and always saw a
thing through to the finish. He
had self condence, but was not
over confident. He was handicapp
by a slow beginning, but persever
ance, courage and a final spurt
of energy won the contest for him.
It was the chagrined Mr. Hare
who awoke, yawned, and swagger
ed across the finish line—only to
find Mr. Tortoise on the other side,
proudly accepting first prize.
SITUATION IS NECK AND
NECK’
There is no hare and tortoise
Daily Record’s big
contest. No contestant is
very far In the lead, no worker so
. far behind that he or she couldn’t
. overtake the leader. At the mo-1
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US Troops Take
Town 31 Miles
Below Parallel
TOKYO. March I—(IP)—U.
S. forces seized a town only
31 miles south of the 38th
Parallel and two strategic
hills today in the opening
hours of the renewed Ko
rean “Killer Offensive.”
South Korean units stabbing in
to the enemy flank from the east
coast in a coordinated attack were
even closer to the old frontier be
tween North and South Korea.
FORCES TOTAL 100,000 MEN
Four U. S. and two South Kore
an divisions and a British Corn#
monwealth brigade—loo,ooo men
at full strength—jumped off soon
after dawn along a 65-mile front
stretching from Yongdu in the
west to the eastern mountains.
First to capture their Initial
objectives were:
U. S. 7th Division—captured
Amidong, in the East-Central
Mountains 31 miles south of the
38th Parallel, against light op
position after knocking the North
Korean defenders off the southern
hill approaches last night.
U. S. Ist Marine Division—seized
a bald 900-foot ridge west of Hoe
engsong in a close-quarter fight
on the central front and pushed
on to the north toward the. main
Chinese base of Hongchon.
,U. S. Cavalry Division—dug out
a defending battalion of Chinese
Reds in a bayonet attack and took
the rugged crest of Hill 318 Just
south of Yongdu, 31 miles south
of the 38th Parallel on the west
central front.
TWO TOWNS TAKEN
f-The- arivwom gave the UN 9th
and 10th Corps control of both
the no-man’s-land towns of Yong
du and Hoengsong and bit into the
outer fringe of the Communists’
new “no-retreat” defense line
south of the 38th Parallel.
Stacked up north of the Yong
du-Hoengsong line were believed
to be five Chinese Communist
armies—the 42nd and 66th in the
front lines, the 39th and 40 Just
behind them and the 37th in re
serve near Hongchon, 15 miles
northwest of Hoengsong.
The resumed offensive had the
objective of killing as many as
possible of the Chinese and.. Korean
Reds south of the 38th Parallel.
The first stage of the assault last
week bogged down in fbot-deep
mud and heavy rains.
Japanese Student
Will Speak Here
Masami Koizumi, a Japanese
youth who is being educated at
the University of North Carolina
through contributions of Rotar
ians of the 279th District? will
speak to the Dunn Rotary Club
Friday night at 6:30 o’clock, Pres
ident Marvin Raynor announced
this morning. .
Dr. Belmont Kittrell will be In
charge of the program and J.
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uation and may end in a phc«* m
finish.
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osophy could develop among can-'
testants in the lead if they feel
that the hard work they did in the
early weeks of the 'subscription
drive has given them sufficient
edge to coast the rest of the wayT
.The race is not always to the
swift nor the battle to the strong.
Competition is not always a test
of fieetness of foot, but rfiote often
a trial of character, courage,
termination and the ability'to ex- •
ercise a final surge of eneigy.;
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in redeeming subscription promisee . A
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